Best's Old Vine Pinot Meunier 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Best's Old Vine Pinot Meunier 2024.

Best's Old Vine Pinot Meunier 2024
$150, 12% alcohol, screwcap, Great Western/Grampians.

There’s an old vineyard at Great Western in the Grampians wine region known as the Millers Burgundy vineyard, and this vineyard was – incredibly – planted in 1868. The vines growing in this vineyard are mostly Pinot Meunier, with a little Pinot Noir. This wine was grown on this vineyard.

There’s a bit more depth through the mid palate than is usual but then the acidity feels cranberried and juicy, which means that it’s a wine both of fruit depth and sweet-sour energy. Floral and sweet spice notes add a certain prettiness, and through it feels both svelte and well balanced. It’s an excellent release, no doubting it, with room to improve in the cellar. 94+ points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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